The buffers passed in the data phase must be DMA-able. Programmers often don't realise this requirement and pass in buffers that reside on the stack. This can be hard to spot when reviewing code. Reject ops if their data buffer is on the stack to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@xxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-mem.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c b/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c index 37f4443ce9a0..b3793a2979ee 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c @@ -207,6 +207,15 @@ static int spi_mem_check_op(const struct spi_mem_op *op) !spi_mem_buswidth_is_valid(op->data.buswidth)) return -EINVAL; + /* Buffers must be DMA-able. */ + if (op->data.dir == SPI_MEM_DATA_IN && + object_is_on_stack(op->data.buf.in)) + return -EINVAL; + + if (op->data.dir == SPI_MEM_DATA_OUT && + object_is_on_stack(op->data.buf.out)) + return -EINVAL; + return 0; } -- 2.34.1